On June 21, 2016, on the Day of Sorrow and Remembrance of the Victims of the War in Ukraine, 8:30 pm, the opening ceremony of the exhibition "Heroism and the Holocaust" took place in the Pechersk District State Administration in Kyiv.
The opening ceremony was attended by Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Israel to Ukraine Eliave Belotserkovsky, Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine Rostislav Karandev , Head of the Pechersk District State Administration in Kyiv Martynchuk SO, President of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Council, Director of Historical- Memorial Museum "Heroism and the Holocaust" Olexander Suslensky, Vice-President of the All-Ukrainian "Jewish Council", Editor-in-Chief of the "Jewish News" newspaper Semen Belman, Chairman of the Association of the Righteous Among the Nations Sophia Yarova, Deputy Director of the National Historical Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar" Ihor Lytvyn, NGO representatives, media representatives and others.
Organizers of the exhibition: Pechersk District State Administration, All-Ukrainian Jewish Council, Heroism and Holocaust Historical and Memorial Museum, Babyn Yar Remembrance Foundation, National Historical Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar"
